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Jan 7, 2025

Vienna Chamber Music Festival duo recital with Janine Jansen

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Jan 10, 2025

Euskadi Symphony

Bilbao, Spain

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Schoenberg: Pelléas et Mélisande

– Euskadi Symphony Orchestra (ensemble)
– Robert Trevino (conductor)

Venue: Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao, Spain

Link to the performance

REVIEWS

Jun 18 2019

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / cond. Vasily Petrenko

“The classical restraint of Kozhukhin’s metrical precision actually added to the touching pathos. Without pause Kozhukhin launched into the final Rondo, each episode of which was splendidly characterised. The fugal passage was especially ear-catching from the strings, in its quietly creeping Tom ‘n Jerry manner, before the pianist demonstrated just how piquant his decorated version was. The coda let loose its tight succession of exchanges between soloist and band, and this formidable work completed its heroic journey. The tiny encore of Grieg’s Arietta, which Kozhukhin announced to an alarming squeal from (I assume) one of that composer’s compatriots, was as evanescent and inconsequential as the concerto had sounded mighty and enduring.”

May 23 2019

Schumann Piano Concerto / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / cond. Thomas Søndergård

“Kozhukhin responded to the orchestra with great sensitivity and mastery, taking up the theme but also enhancing it. His playing was magical, drawing the listener in, with every phrase, every note full of meaning. It was a sensational performance. Kozhukhin rewarded the enthusiastic applause of the audience with an encore, playing Grieg’s To Spring, from his Lyric Suite (Op 43 No 6).”
Read the full review here.

May 23 2019

Schumann Piano Concerto / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / cond. Thomas Søndergård

“Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin is a formidable artist on all levels; a fabulous technique, a beautifully poetic instinct and a sure understanding of style. The orchestra backed him to the hilt, and his encore – Grieg’s “Spring” from his “Lyric Pieces”- showed further evidence of his mastery in a piece of great simplicity.”
Read the full review here

May 15 2019

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 5 / CBSO / cond. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

” a fearlessly accurate and athletic Kozhukhin following in the footsteps of two other eminent Russian pianists who have championed this work, Sviatoslav Richter and Vladimir Ashkenazy…Striking to this performance was its dazzling spontaneity, where soloist and conductor were in total command of its ever-changing material, where pianistic pyrotechnics suddenly yield to gentle musing…Ideas turn on a sixpence in the Vivo and its garishness and gentle ambiguities were fully realised by Kozhukhin and a superbly supportive CBSO.”

Read full review on bachtrack.com

Apr 17 2019

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / cond. Jamie Phillips

“ […] Russian soloist Denis Kozhukhin gave a superb performance combining great power and virility…along with musicality and subtlety all delivered with consummate technical ease. The first movement cadenza was notably dramatic and poetic. The ending to the final movement was particularly splendid. […] ”

Read the full review here.

Feb 12 2019

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 / Iceland Symphony Orchestra / cond. Antonio Mendez

“[…] In short, Kozhukhin´s playing was one of the greatest fireworks displays I have witnessed in Harpa … His playing was technically outstanding and so full of power and excitement that one unwittingly searched for seatbelts in order not to be thrown in all directions. There was never a dull moment, and one´s draw jopped again and again. I hereby declare the founding of the Icelandic division of the Kozhukhin Fan Club. […] ”

Feb 12 2019

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.5 / NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester / cond. Mirga Grazinaite-Tyla

“[…] Denis Kozhukhin was an impressively accurate choice for this solo part. The pianistic challenges did not seem to concern the Russian in the least; he designed the harsh brilliance of the first movement with laconic precision, contrasting the quirky, angular Toccata movement with the unexpectedly dreamily beginning of the Larghetto. Kozhukhin played it all away with ease, with that pleasant, sleek, triumphant serenity that only sets in when you do not want to prove anything anymore. But he could also effortlessly increase pressure and operating temperature to storm into the final.”

Read the full review on Hamburger Abendblatt (in German)

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